Re: New House Alarm - Am I locked out?

[jasonextras@xxxxxxxxx]

My main problem with naming the service is that they're a large
company that operates in at least 17 states that I can tell.  While I
have not said anything untruthful, I do not have the means to defend
against a libel suit should they take offense to my discussion of
their overall crappiness.  Although I suppose I did give the panel
model number.  It is a branded panel sold by only this company as far
as I can tell, so it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out who it
was.  It looks like there's a couple posts in the archives here about
users with this same panel being locked out by this company.

I've found a couple cheap used and working (and reset to defaults)
Vista10s in the $10-$30 range, but the alpha keypads to do the
programming run $100ish.  I don't know if I could justify spending
that much on an old system.  I suppose I could buy the alpha keypad,
program the system, and then sell it again, but there were some posts
that First Alert keypads don't always work with Ademco boards.  I
guess I have some decisions to make.

Thanks for the helpful offers.  I just need to decide what I want to
do, now.